Neonatal exposure to low dose corticosterone persistently modulates hippocampal mineralocorticoid receptor expression and improves locomotor/exploratory behaviour in a mouse model of Rett syndrome

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 174-183

  De Filippis, Bianca ^a   Ricceri, Laura ^a   Fuso, Andrea ^b   Laviola, Giovanni ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

5 HT1a receptor; Brain development; Glucocorticoid receptors; Hippocampus; Mineralocorticoid receptors; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR;

ADULT ANIMAL; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR GENE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; EARLY INTERVENTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR GENE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCOMOTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR GENE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; RETT SYNDROME; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RETT SYNDROME; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84875231925     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.05.048     Document Type: Article

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